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For the album by Swans, see Love of Life (album). Swans was an influential American Post-punk band active from 1982 to 1997 led by singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. Love of Life is a studio album by Swans. It was released in 1992.
Love of Life
Format live action, soap opera
Created by Roy Winsor
Starring Audrey Peters
Ron Tomme
et al
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
No. A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. Roy Winsor ( April 13, 1912 - May 31, 1987) was an American Soap opera writer creator and novelist Audrey Peters (born February 11, year unknown in Maplewood New Jersey) is an American actress. Ron Tomme ( October 24, 1931 &mdash January 29, 2005) was an American Actor, best known for his long-running role as Bruce The United States of America —commonly referred to as the  of episodes Approximately 7500
Production
Running time 15 minutes
(1951-1958)
30 minutes
(1958-1962, 1969-1973, 1979-1980)
25 minutes
(1962-1969, 1973-1979)
Broadcast
Original channel CBS
Original run September 24, 1951 – February 1, 1980

Love of Life was an American soap opera which was aired on CBS from September 24, 1951 to February 1, 1980. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Events 622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Events 622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) It was created by Roy Winsor; Winsor also created Search for Tomorrow, which premiered three weeks before Love of Live, and The Secret Storm, which would debut two and a half years later. Roy Winsor ( April 13, 1912 - May 31, 1987) was an American Soap opera writer creator and novelist Search for Tomorrow is a Soap opera which started airing on Monday September 3, 1951 on CBS. The Secret Storm was a Soap opera which aired on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974.

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Production

Love of Life was taped at several studios in New York City, but primarily at the CBS Production Center on West 57th Street and CBS's Studio 52 behind the Ed Sullivan Theatre. The City of New York In 1975, the studio was moved to make room for a nightclub that would eventually become known as Studio 54. Studio 54 is a New York City Broadway theater and former Discothèque located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan. Until 1980, Love of Life was taped in the same studio as another CBS soap opera, Search for Tomorrow. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Search for Tomorrow is a Soap opera which started airing on Monday September 3, 1951 on CBS.

Format

Unlike most other soap operas, Love of Life was originally not split up into segments dictated by commercial breaks. Because the show was owned by packaged-goods giant American Home Products, and merely licensed to CBS, all commercials were for AHP brands, and occurred before or after the show. Wyeth, formerly known as American Home Products (AHP is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world In the 1960s, one commercial break was allotted around the middle of the program, but this was mostly to allow affiliates to reconnect with the feed after airing local commercials. Love of Life adopted the five segments-per-half hour standard in the 1970s.

In 1958 the show extended from 15 minutes to 25 minutes.

Ratings/Scheduling history

See also: List of US daytime soap opera ratings

Love of Life began, as most television serials of that era, as a 15-minute program, airing at 12 Noon Eastern/11 Central. The following is a list of television ratings and rankings for American daytime Soap operas from the 1950s to the present The program became so popular, though, that CBS expanded it to 30 minutes on April 14, 1958, keeping it at Noon/11. Events 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar 's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. During that period, LOL was generally among the top six rated soaps in the 1950s and 1960s. This occurred despite CBS' trimming the show five minutes in order to accommodate a newscast, beginning on October 1, 1962. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

By the late 1960s, however, NBC's Jeopardy! eventually rose to become daytime's second-highest-rated game (behind Hollywood Squares), eroding LOL's audience in the process. The Hollywood Squares was an American Television comedy and Game show in which two contestants play Tic-tac-toe to win money In order to make room for a new in-house serial, Where the Heart Is, CBS moved LOL ahead a half-hour on September 8, 1969, against NBC's Squares. Where the Heart Is is an American Soap opera which was telecast on the CBS television network from Monday September 8, 1969, to Friday Events 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Further, the show once again expanded to a full half hour, only to lose its last five minutes again to CBS News on March 26, 1973; this may well have hurt the program's ability to compete against the top-rated NBC game. CBS News is the news division of American Television and Radio network CBS. Events 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. By this time, CBS had assumed production from the original packager, American Home Products, as it had The Secret Storm. Wyeth, formerly known as American Home Products (AHP is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world The Secret Storm was a Soap opera which aired on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974.

Despite the network canceling two in-house soaps in 1973 and Secret Storm in early 1974, LOL managed to escape the chopping block for several more years, due to a brief rise in the ratings in the mid-1970s, occasioned largely by the reintroduction of Meg to the storyline. Still, the momentum was not sustained (although it had climbed as high as 9th, above even General Hospital and One Life to Live in 1975-1976); and by April 1979, CBS decided to, in effect, abandon the program to a time slot highly preempted by affiliates, 4 p. General Hospital (commonly abbreviated GH) is an American Soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network during the One Life to Live ( OLTL) is an American Soap opera which has been broadcast on the ABC television network since July 15 1968 m. /3 Central, although restoring the daily five minutes lost six years earlier. Not surprisingly, LOL went rapidly to the bottom tier of the ratings, setting up an abrupt cancellation almost nine months later.

On February 4, 1980, the following Monday after LOL ended, The Young and the Restless expanded to a full hour in LOL's place. The Young and the Restless is a 39 time Emmy Award winning American Television Soap opera, first broadcast on CBS on March 26 As of June 2008, no daytime soap opera has expanded in broadcast length since then.

Titles and theme tunes

B/W years

And Then It Happened

The final years

Plot

Beginning years

See also: List of Love of Life characters

The original story was a morality play of good versus evil, illustrated by the interactions between two sisters, Vanessa Dale (originally Peggy McCay) and Meg Dale (originally Jean McBride). Vanessa "Van" Dale Raven Sterling, was the main character and the lead heroine in the now-defunct American Soap Opera Love of Life. Peggy McCay (born November 3, 1930 in New York City) is an American actress, with a career spanning over fifty years in daytime Meg Dale Harper Andrews Aleata Hart was the second major female character and the main villain in the now-defunct American Soap opera Love of Life Vanessa (often referred to as "Van" for short) was "the good girl. " She stood up for what was right in life and in her community. Meg was the schemer and all-around "bad" girl. While Van disapproved of Meg's actions, she still loved her and taught the audience the value of forgiveness. The show was painted black-and-white in this regard, which was evident in the tagline recited at the beginning of each of the earlier episodes: "Love of Life: The exciting story of Vanessa Dale and her courageous struggle for human dignity. "

The show changed directions when the character of Meg was phased out and the show changed locales (first set in the fictional town of Barrowsville, it moved to Rosehill, where it would remain for the rest of the show's run).

During this time, the actress who originated the role of Van (Peggy McCay) left the show and was replaced with actress Bonnie Bartlett. Bonnie Bartlett (born June 20, 1929) is an American Television and Film actress. Bartlett was subsequently replaced by Audrey Peters, who played Van for the rest of the run, from 1959 until 1980. Audrey Peters (born February 11, year unknown in Maplewood New Jersey) is an American actress. Peters had an unusual debut; Bartlett had played the role of Vanessa up to Vanessa's wedding day. The next day, when Vanessa walked down the aisle, Bruce Sterling raised Vanessa's veil, and revealed Audrey Peters. Peters admitted that, during the wedding reception scenes afterward, she didn't know the names of all the characters that were interacting with Vanessa, so she called everyone "dear. "

In the 1960s, most of the drama was focused on Van and her new marriage to Bruce Sterling (played by Ron Tomme). Ron Tomme ( October 24, 1931 &mdash January 29, 2005) was an American Actor, best known for his long-running role as Bruce The late '60s involved attempts to shake up the somewhat staid atmosphere through campus unrest and a return of Vanessa's first husband, who had been killed off in the mid '50s. Vanessa divorced Bruce to reunite with her first husband, outraging many in the audience who could not accept their heroine getting a divorce.

The other major story of the late '60s involved Tess Krakauer and Bill Prentiss, played by real-life couple Toni Bull Bua and Gene Bua. Tess and Bill had the perfunctory tortured love story, including separations, children, and murder trials, until Bill died of a "rare blood disease" in 1972 and Tess left town in 1973.

The final years

As ratings began to slide in the 1970s, Meg (now played by Tudi Wiggins) and her son Ben Harper were brought back to the show (Ben, now an adult, was most notably played by Christopher Reeve). Tudi Wiggins ( October 10, 1935 – July 19, 2006) born Mary Susan Wiggins in Victoria British Columbia, was a Canadian Christopher D'Olier Reeve ( September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American Actor, director, Under the reins of critically acclaimed daytime writers Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer the show returned to the original "good Vanessa, bad Meg" theme. Claire Labine Meg broke new ground for daytime when she called her son's newborn daughter, Suzanne, a "bastard", the first time profanity was spoken on daytime TV.

However, after Labine and Mayer left, the show lost focus. The grittier storylines that took over the show (one story implied that while Ben was in prison, he had been sodomized) were not warmly received by the audience, and the ratings dropped. Sodomy (ˈsɒdəmi is a term used today predominantly in Law (derived from traditional Christian usage to describe the act of Anal intercourse, Oral intercourse The show also was challenged by its fringe timeslot: since the beginning, Love of Life had aired in the very late morning, and few soaps had been successful airing before noon. The show's ratings had been middling in the 1950s and 1960s, but had dropped sharply as the show entered the 1970s.

On April 23, 1979, Love of Life moved, for the first time, from midday to a mid-afternoon airing. Events 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) At that time, the show had early soap opera writer, Jean Holloway as the head writer, and her storylines, which were almost from the medium's early days, had not caught on with the audience, and had been considered one of the factors leading up to the end. A Head Writer (HW is a person who is in charge of a television/radio series' writing team Love of Life ended its run abruptly on February 1, 1980, with a cliffhanger: after testifying in a trial, heroine Betsy Crawford (Elizabeth Kemp) collapsed as she was leaving the stand. No one knew what happened to her as the show was not picked up by another network. The final scene of the series was longtime director Larry Auerbach walking through the empty sets, as Tony Bennett's "We'll Be Together Again" played in the background. Larry Auerbach (born 1923 in Mount Vernon New York) is an American television director Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto; August 3 1926) is an American Singer of popular music, standards

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